The Center for Investigation and Promotion of Human Rights in Honduras (CIPRODEH) condemned the attack on the journalists and stated that "this criminal action is an expression of a State incapable of guaranteeing security to its inhabitants, much less the free exercise of the press."

The organization said it believed it was a "political attack" and accused the Honduran government of trying “to silence once and for all independent journalists in the country." "It is not enough to impose a society of secrets, to impose legislative measures to imprison, for terrorism, freedom of expression that dares to discuss the subject of organized crime,” CIPRODEH criticized.

Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), condemned the attack on his Twitter account. “The attack must be invested in line with journalistic work,” he said.